Take-back
A garment’s worst ending is the back of a cupboard, where it is neither worn nor recovered. Take-back exists to give it a route out that is better than that — and to make us live with the consequences of what we make.
Editorial conceptHow it works
Bring back any garment we made, whatever state it is in. There is no time limit, no proof of purchase required beyond us recognising our own work, and no charge. What happens next depends entirely on the condition of the cloth, and we assess it in front of you rather than behind a counter.
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Bring it in
Drop the garment at the Indiranagar studio, or post it. It should be clean — not pristine, just washed. We will look at it with you and say plainly whether it still has wear left in it.
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Repair first, always
Most garments that people bring in as finished are not finished. A reopened seam, a replaced button, a re-hem, a patch behind a thin knee — if the cloth is sound, mending it is the better outcome for everyone and we will push for it.
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Second life
If it is sound but you are done with it, it goes to our second-life rail: cleaned, mended, priced low, sold on. You get studio credit against a future purchase, and the garment gets another owner rather than a landfill.
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Materials recovery
Only when a garment genuinely cannot be worn does it go for material recovery — cut down for cleaning cloth and offcuts where we can use it, or passed to a textile recycler where we cannot.
What we will not claim about this
Textile recycling is genuinely difficult, and the fashion industry has been dishonest about it for a decade. Here is the boundary of what we can stand behind.
“Fully circular” — no
Blended fabrics are extremely hard to separate back into usable fibre. A linen-cotton trouser cannot currently be turned back into new linen-cotton trousers at any sensible scale. Anyone telling you otherwise is selling something.
No recovery percentages
We have not measured what proportion of returned garments end up as new material versus cleaning cloth versus waste, so we are not going to publish a figure. When we have a year of records, the number goes here — whatever it says.
What we can promise
Every piece is looked at by a person, repair is always attempted first, and nothing is shipped abroad to become someone else’s waste problem.
The honest headline
Take-back is a backstop, not an achievement. The real work is making a garment good enough that you never want to hand it back — which is what the rest of this site is about.
Start a take-back
Message the studio with a photo and we will tell you before you travel whether the piece is a repair, a second-life candidate or a materials job.